The lumbar spine includes five vertebrae that help with mobility and stability. Lumbar vertebrae are larger because they carry the load from your head down to the lower spine. The lumbar spine has a ...

The spinal cord is a long bundle of nerves and cells that extends from the lower portion of the brain to the lower back. Spinal cord functions include carrying signals between the brain and the rest ...

1 Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium 2 Centre of Sports Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium 3 Department of Physical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results published in Orthopedics showed facet joint osteoarthritis was associated with a higher multifidus ...

Physicians at the UAB Pain Treatment Clinic are offering a new treatment for chronic low back pain. The treatment focuses on stimulating one of the key stabilizing muscles of the lumbar spine, the ...

“This is a totally new way of treating back pain,” said Prentiss Lawson Jr., M.D., an associate professor in the UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and program director of the ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mainstay Medical today announced that the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has designated an International Classification of Diseases, Tenth ...

Non-specific severe long-term chronic refractory low back pain can present in various ways, including as neuropathic pain (associated with damage to the nervous system) or nociceptive pain (associated ...